Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception. Ford Madox Ford More Quotes by Ford Madox Ford More Quotes From Ford Madox Ford You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to set down what they have witnessed for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads. Ford Madox Ford citieswritingfall The world is full of places to which I want to return Ford Madox Ford returnwantworld I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him. Ford Madox Ford regardendsmen And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me. Ford Madox Ford lighthousemomentsmoving In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection. Ford Madox Ford passionreflectionmen It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven. Ford Madox Ford qualitysoulheaven No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great heavens, did I write as well as that then?" for the implication always is that one does not write any longer so well and few are so envious as to censure the complacencies of an extinct volcano. Ford Madox Ford writingbookthinking I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone. Ford Madox Ford heartmenworld If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed. Ford Madox Ford hunchesstormlong He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head. Ford Madox Ford sandwichescookingfood [W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other. Ford Madox Ford mind They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights. Ford Madox Ford simplesightpeople ...she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say farewell to her, like that, with the inflexion of a verb. As, just occasionally, using the word 'we' - and perhaps without intention - he had let her know that he loved her. Ford Madox Ford agonyfarewellmind He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to. Ford Madox Ford shirehillsmen Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge. Ford Madox Ford ablesoldierlying But responsibility hardens the heart. It must. Ford Madox Ford responsibilityheart Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows. Ford Madox Ford six-monthsdepthheart He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them. Ford Madox Ford halfusewriting If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened. Ford Madox Ford militarymindorder Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness. Ford Madox Ford passionatesuicidemind
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